Criminology at California State University - San Marcos

If you are interested in studying criminology, you may want to check out the program at California State University - San Marcos. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

CSUSM is located in San Marcos, California and approximately 16,367 students attend the school each year. Of the 3,749 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from California State University - San Marcos in 2021, 266 of them were criminology majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Criminology section at the bottom of this page.

CSUSM Criminology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology

CSUSM Criminology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the criminology progam at CSUSM compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The criminology major at CSUSM is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	6
Most Focused Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	14
	77

How Much Do Criminology Graduates from CSUSM Make?

The median salary of criminology students who receive their bachelor's degree at CSUSM is $31,316. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $33,551 for all criminology students.

Criminology Student Demographics at CSUSM

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminology majors at California State University - San Marcos.

CSUSM Criminology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 266 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in criminology from CSUSM. About 44% were men and 56% were women. The typical criminology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at CSUSM since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 31% more racial-ethnic minorities in its criminology bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California State University - San Marcos with a bachelor's in criminology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	16
Hispanic or Latino	159
White	52
International Students	7
Other Races/Ethnicities	25

CSUSM also has a doctoral program available in criminology. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Anthropology
• General Social Sciences
• Economics
• Political Science & Government
• Sociology

Careers That Criminology Grads May Go Into

A degree in criminology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for California State University - San Marcos.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Sociologists	1,070	$98,560

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Eamuscatuli under License

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